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Atari A to Z: F-15 Strike Eagle
An all-time classic for Atari 8-bit today, from the man who would go on to give us the Civilization series: it’s Sid Meier’s F-15 Strike Eagle! This was one of the earlier military flight sims out...
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Atari ST A to Z: Zog
Today’s game for Atari ST is a public domain title that was put together with a game-making package — specifically, Palace Software’s Shoot ‘Em Up Construction Kit. It’s not the most original or...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Sentinel
It’s always interesting to explore games that have had a lousy critical reception over the years, because you can look on it as a challenge to “find the good” in what the game is offering. Such was the...
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Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea – A Fresh Start
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > And so, after the intriguing adventures of Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky, we come to the grand finale...
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Atari A to Z: Gauntlet
Gauntlet is an all-time classic arcade game — and it got a whole bunch of ports to various different systems over the years following its original release. The Atari 8-bit version, developed by Gremlin...
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Atari ST A to Z: Arkanoid
Arkanoid is such an influential entry in the bat-and-ball genre that many people took to calling brick-breakers “Arkanoid clones” rather than “Breakout clones”. Like many other arcade games of the...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Sky Diver
Sky Diver for Atari 2600 is a conversion of the arcade game of the same name, originally developed by Owen Rubin and brought home by Jim Huether. In typical Atari 2600 arcade conversion tradition, the...
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Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea – What a Girl Wants
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea draws a number of cues from past Atelier games in terms of its overall game...
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Atari A to Z: Hot Lips
Often, simple ideas are all you need to make a fun game work. Such is the case with Hot Lips, a straightforward but enjoyable maze game for Atari 8-bit. In Hot Lips, all you have to do is make sure the...
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Atari ST A to Z: Buggy Boy
One of the first games I played on the Atari ST is also one of my all time favourites — it’s Elite’s excellent conversion of Tatsumi’s arcade racing game Buggy Boy, also known as Speed Buggy. Buggy Boy...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Slot Machine
Game developer David Crane is best-known today for his highly influential work Pitfall!, which helped define the concept of the platform game. That’s not all he worked on back in the early days of...
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Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea – The Art of Shalchemy
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > It would have been easy for the Atelier series to just stick with one alchemy system and trot it out for every new...
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The MoeGamer Podcast: Episode 48 – A Certain Roguish Charm
Welcome to a brand new podcast episode! Sorry it’s been so long, but life has been a tad chaotic (in a good way!) for both of us. But here we are again! Today I am joined, as always, by my good friend...
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Atari A to Z: Into Deep
Type-in listings were commonplace for the 8-bit home computers, thanks to the fact that most of them booted into some variant of BASIC. And the Atari 8-bit was no exception. More ambitious programmers...
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Atari ST A to Z: Cluedo Master Detective
There’s been a murder! And only you (or perhaps one of the other players) can solve it. Yes, it’s a digital adaptation of the popular board game Cluedo, with the twist that this version is based on the...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Slot Racers
Slot Racers is a game for Atari 2600 that has nothing to do with either slot cars or racing. Instead, it’s a top-down, maze-based, vehicle-centric deathmatch game with some interesting mechanics and...
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Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea – The Fight for a Dying World
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > So far, we’ve seen that Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea is an interesting installment in the Atelier series as a...
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Atari A to Z: Jeepers Creepers
You’re asking for trouble with a name like “Quality Software” — the stuff you put out better be top-notch otherwise you’ll be at the absolute mercy of press and public alike. Thankfully Jeepers...
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Atari ST A to Z: Deja Vu
The time has come once again for adventure! AtariVenture, to be exact — the Atari ST ports of Icom Simulations’ MacVentures series. Today we’re looking at Deja Vu, a hard-boiled detective thriller in...
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The Birthday Post, 2021 Edition
Hello everyone! It’s that time of year once again, when I celebrate getting a year older and, at the same time, celebrate my own little nook of the Internet being a year older too. This year I am 40,...
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